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| 1 | lurid | (adjective satellite) shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke; "a lurid sunset"; "lurid flames" (adjective satellite) ghastly pale; "moonlight gave the statue a lurid luminence" (adjective satellite) glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism; "lurid details of the accident" (adjective satellite) horrible in fierceness or savagery; "lurid crimes"; "a lurid life"
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| 2 | lustrous | (adjective satellite) reflecting light; "glistening bodies of swimmers"; "the horse's glossy coat"; "lustrous auburn hair"; "saw the moon like a shiny dime on a deep blue velvet carpet"; "shining white enamel" (adjective satellite) brilliant; "set a lustrous example for others to follow"; "lustrous actors of the time" (adjective satellite) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow; "bright silver candlesticks"; "a burnished brass knocker"; "she brushed her hair until it fell in lustrous auburn waves"; "rows of shining glasses"; "shiny black patents"
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| 3 | luxuriant | (adjective satellite) produced or growing in extreme abundance; "their riotous blooming" (adjective satellite) marked by complexity and richness of detail; "an elaborate lace pattern"
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| 4 | macerate | (verb) cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him" (verb) soften, usually by steeping in liquid, and cause to disintegrate as a result; "macerate peaches"; "the gizzards macerates the food in the digestive system" (verb) become soft or separate and disintegrate as a result of excessive soaking; "the tissue macerated in the water" (verb) separate into constituents by soaking
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| 5 | maculate | (verb) spot, stain, or pollute; "The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it" (verb) make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically; "The silver was tarnished by the long exposure to the air"; "Her reputation was sullied after the affair with a married man" (adjective satellite) spotted or blotched (adjective satellite) morally blemished; stained or impure
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| 6 | magnanimity | (noun) liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit
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| 7 | malediction | (noun) the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult); "he suffered the imprecations of the mob"
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| 8 | malefactor | (noun) someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime
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| 9 | malevolent | (adjective satellite) having or exerting a malignant influence; "malevolent stars"; "a malefic force" (adjective) wishing or appearing to wish evil to others; arising from intense ill will or hatred; "a gossipy malevolent old woman"; "failure made him malevolent toward those who were successful" (adjective satellite) extremely malevolent or malicious; "the malignant tongues of gossipers"
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| 10 | malicious | (adjective) wishing or appearing to wish evil to others; arising from intense ill will or hatred; "a gossipy malevolent old woman"; "failure made him malevolent toward those who were successful" (adjective) having the nature of or resulting from malice; "malicious gossip"; "took malicious pleasure in...watching me wince"- Rudyard Kipling
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| 11 | malign | (verb) speak unfavorably about; "She badmouthes her husband everywhere" (adjective satellite) having or exerting a malignant influence; "malevolent stars"; "a malefic force" (adjective) evil or harmful in nature or influence; "prompted by malign motives"; "believed in witches and malign spirits"; "gave him a malign look"; "a malign lesion"
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| 12 | malinger | (verb) avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill
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| 13 | malleable | (adjective satellite) capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out; "ductile copper"; "malleable metals such as gold"; "they soaked the leather to made it pliable"; "pliant molten glass"; "made of highly tensile steel alloy" (adjective satellite) easily influenced
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| 14 | mandate | (noun) the commission that is given to a government and its policies through an electoral victory (noun) a document giving an official instruction or command (noun) a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they ar able to stand by themselves (verb) assign authority to (verb) make mandatory; "the new director of the schoolbaord mandated regular tests" (verb) assign under a mandate; "mandate a colony"
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| 15 | manifest | (noun) a customs document listing the contents put on a ship or plane (verb) reveal its presence or make an appearance; "the ghost manifests each year on the same day" (verb) provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes; "His high fever attested to his illness"; "The buildings in Rome manifest a high level of architectural sophistication"; "This decision demonstrates his se (verb) record in a ship's manifest; "each passenger must be manifested" (adjective satellite) clearly apparent or obvious to the mind or senses; "the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees the parched fields"; "evident hostility"; "manifest disapproval"; "patent advantages"; "made his meaning plain"; "it is plain that he is no reac
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| 16 | mar | (noun) a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body); "a facial blemish" (noun) the month following February and preceding April (verb) destroy or injure severely; "mutilated bodies" (verb) make imperfect; "nothing marred her beauty"
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| 17 | marauder | (noun) someone who attacks in search of booty
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| 18 | materialism | (noun) (philosophy) the philosophical theory that matter is the only reality (noun) a desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters
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| 19 | maudlin | (adjective satellite) effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressons of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry"
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| 20 | maverick | (noun) an unbranded range animal (especially a stray calf); belongs to the first person who puts a brand on it (noun) someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action (adjective satellite) independent in behavior or thought; "she led a somewhat irregular private life"; "maverick politicians"
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| 21 | meander | (noun) a curve in a stream (verb) to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course; "the river winds through the hills"; "the path meanders through the vineyards"; "sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body"
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| 22 | melancholy | (noun) a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy (noun) a feeling of thoughtful sadness (noun) a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed (adjective satellite) characterized by or causing or expressing sadness; "growing more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic smile"; "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth"
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| 23 | mellifluous | (adjective satellite) pleasing to the ear; "the dulcet tones of the cello"
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| 24 | melodious | (adjective) containing or constituting or characterized by pleasing melody; "the melodious song of a meadowlark" (adjective) having a musical sound; especially a pleasing tune
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| 25 | menagerie | (noun) the facility where wild animals are housed for exhibition (noun) a collection of live animals for study or display
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| 26 | mendacious | (adjective satellite) given to lying; "a lying witness"; "a mendacious child" (adjective satellite) intentionally untrue; "a mendacious statement"
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| 27 | mentor | (noun) a wise and trusted guide and advisor (verb) serve as a teacher or trusted counselor; "The famous professor mentored him during his years in graduate school"; "She is a fine lecturer but she doesn't like mentoring"
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| 28 | mercenary | (noun) a person hired to fight for another country than their own (adjective satellite) profit oriented; "a commercial book"; "preached a mercantile and militant patriotism"- John Buchan; "a mercenary enterprise"; "a moneymaking business" (adjective satellite) marked by materialism
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| 29 | mercurial | (adjective satellite) liable to sudden unpredictable change; "erratic behavior"; "fickle weather"; "mercurial twists of temperament"; "a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next" (adjective) relating to or containing or caused by mercury; "mercurial preparations"; "mercurial sore mouth" (adjective) relating to or having characteristics (eloquence, shrewdness, swiftness, thievishness) attributed to the god Mercury; "more than Mercurial thievishness" (adjective) relating to or under the (astrological) influence of the planet Mercury; "the Mercurial canals"
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| 30 | meretricious | (adjective satellite) based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument" (adjective satellite) tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" (adjective) like or relating to a prostitute; "meretricious relationships"
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| 31 | mesmerize | (verb) induce hypnosis in (verb) attract strongly, as if with a magnet; "She magnetized the audience with her tricks"
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| 32 | metamorphosis | (noun) a complete change of physical form or substance especially as by magic or witchcraft (noun) a striking change in appearance or character or circumstances; "the metamorphosis of the old house into something new and exciting" (noun) the marked and rapid transformation of a larva into an adult that occurs in some animals
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| 33 | meticulous | (adjective satellite) marked by extreme care in treatment of details; "a meticulous craftsman"; "almost worryingly meticulous in his business formalities" (adjective satellite) marked by precise accordance with details; "was worryingly meticulous about trivial details"; "punctilious in his attention to rules of etiquette"
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| 34 | mettle | (noun) the courage to carry on; "he kept fighting on pure spunk"; "you haven't got the heart for baseball"
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| 35 | mien | (noun) dignified manner or conduct
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| 36 | mimicry | (noun) the act of mimicking; imitative behavior (noun) the resemblance of an animal species to another species or to natural objects; provides concealment and protection from predators
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| 37 | minatory | (adjective satellite) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; "a baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent"; "sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his threatening behavior"; "ugly black clo
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| 38 | minute | (noun) distance measured by the time taken to cover it; "we live an hour from the airport"; "its just 10 minutes away" (noun) a short note; "the secretary keeps the minutes of the meeting" (noun) a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree (noun) a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour; "he ran a 4 minute mile" (noun) a particular point in time; "the moment he arrived the party began" (noun) an indefinitely short time; "wait just a moment"; "it only takes a minute"; "in just a bit" (adjective satellite) characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination; "a minute inspection of the grounds"; "a narrow scrutiny"; "an exact and minute report" (adjective satellite) infinitely or immeasurably small; "two minute whiplike threads of protoplasm"; "reduced to a microscopic scale" (adjective satellite) immeasurably small
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| 39 | mire | (noun) a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot (verb) soil with mud, muck, or mire; "The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden" (verb) be unable to move further; "The car bogged down in the sand" (verb) cause to get stuck as if in a mire; "The mud mired our cart" (verb) entrap; "Our people should not be mired in the past"
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| 40 | misanthrope | (noun) someone who dislikes people in general
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| 41 | miscreant | (noun) a person without moral scruples
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| 42 | miser | (noun) a stingy hoarder of money and possessions (often living miserably)
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| 43 | mite | (noun) any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods (noun) a slight but appreciable addition; "this dish could use a touch of garlic"
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| 44 | mitigate | (verb) make less severe or harsh; "mitigating circumstances" (verb) lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of; "The circumstances extenuate the crime"
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| 45 | modulate | (verb) vary the frequency, amplitude, phase, or other characteristic of (electromagnetic waves) (verb) adjust the pitch, tone, or volume of (verb) fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of; "regulate the temperature"; "modulate the pitch" (verb) of one's speech, varying the pitch (verb) change the key of, in music; "modulate the melody"
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| 46 | mollify | (verb) make less rigid or softer (verb) make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate; "she tempered her criticism" (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; "She managed to mollify the angry customer"
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| 47 | molten | (adjective satellite) reduced to liquid form by heating; "a mass of molten rock"
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| 48 | moot | (noun) a hypothetical case that law students argue as an exercise; "he organized the weekly moot" (verb) think about carefully; weigh; "They considered the possibility of a strike"; "Turn the proposal over in your mind" (adjective satellite) open to argument or debate; "that is a moot question" (adjective satellite) of no legal significance (as having been previously decided)
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| 49 | mordant | (noun) a substance used to treat leather or other materials before dyeing; aids in dyeing process (adjective satellite) harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"
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| 50 | morose | (adjective satellite) showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper
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